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Thirty years after the first four documentaries, this film continues the research of the particular yodel style of the Muotatal, a Swiss alpine valley. In the 1980s, ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp found the...
An impressionistic documentary by David Byrne (of Talking Heads) on Candomblé, the Brazilian spirit cult of the Bahia region. This "docu-poem" eschews all traditional documentary techniques and evokes the...
Carlinhos Brown is a successful musician but still lives in Candeal, Brazil where he remains deeply rooted in the street culture which has been the inspiration for his Afro-Brazilian music. He has set up and...
A portrait of Cesaria Evora from Mindelo, Cape Verde, who specialises in melodies of the ‘Morna’', a form of Cape Verdien blues. Her music tells what she believes is the tragic destiny of her country....
A performance by The Bushman of Namibia at the Festival L’Imaginaire. The group are Ju’hoansi and live in the north of the Kalahari. Each community has its own musical repertoires using hand-clapping,...
A portrait of Nusrat who produced a contemporary interpretation of the qawwali, the Moslem chanting song emanating from the belief of the Sufis. It comes from Pakistan and combines traditional Persian poetic...
The Sufis are a mystical sect of Islam and qawwali is the form of music they have developed in India and Pakistan, since the 13th century. The central focus of the music is the intensity of feeling in the...
Wayang Golek is the rod-puppet theatre tradition of Sunda (West Java), Indonesia, which comprises a vibrant mixture of storytelling, songs and instumental music. The programme introduces the Wayang Golek...
On the island of Santiago, in the Cape Verde archipelago, lives Mano Mendi, the last player of cimboa, a one-string violin used to accompany the traditional batuque music. Through the portrait of Mano Mendi...
Veena Sahasrabuddhe, one of India’s leading classical singers, presents a unique insight into the khyal form and the processes of improvised performance. Using numerous demonstrations, she dissects one of...
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